Masako Izumi chuckled softly, "Father, are you getting old and forgetful? Didn't I already say that since I dared to come to find you, I never intended to go back alive?"
This Soul-Sealing Silk isn't my Yamato's poison; I got it from the Princess Consort of the Great Chu Kingdom.
According to the princess, she is the only one in the world who can cure this poison, so even if my father kills me, I will not have the antidote.
If Father doesn't believe me, he can find any doctor in Japan to examine you and see if what I'm saying is true.
Oh, right, there's another way to verify this: Father can take a deep breath and see if he feels any pain in his chest.
Upon hearing this, Izumi Nobuyuki subconsciously took a deep breath, then felt a tightness in his chest followed by a sharp pain that made him cough uncontrollably.
"Cough...cough, Masako Izumi, how dare you...cough cough..."
The violent coughing made it impossible for Nobuyuki Izumi to finish a single sentence.
“Father, don’t rush, don’t get agitated. As long as you don’t get agitated and don’t take deep breaths, you won’t feel any discomfort until this black line reaches your chest,” Izumi Masako reminded him.
After hearing this, Izumi Nobukatsu consciously tried to slow his breathing, and sure enough, the pain in his chest gradually subsided until it disappeared.
In this way, he knew he was indeed poisoned without even needing to see a doctor.
As for whether, as Izumi Masako said, only the Princess Consort of Great Chu could cure this poison, he dared not be certain until a physician confirmed it.
Looking at his daughter, whom he knew no one, Izumi Nobuyuki subconsciously felt that she wasn't lying.
Looking at Izumi Nobuyuki like this, Izumi Masako felt a strange sense of satisfaction.
She was afraid of her father from a young age, not only because he rarely gave her a kind look, but more importantly because he often beat and scolded her mother.
Although her mother was her father's legal wife, she was not as favored as the concubines in the mansion.
Whenever her father got drunk, he would come to her mother, not to be affectionate, but to beat her and scold her for not being able to bear a son.
When she was little, she often saw her mother secretly wiping away tears, and her mother told her that it was fate.
As she grew up, Masako Izumi obediently followed her family's arrangements. She also felt that Tokuyoshi Yasuhito's neglect, indifference, and exploitation of her were simply her fate.
Until she lost the baby in her womb.
Now that she's about to die, what's there to be afraid of? She might as well go all out.
"By the way, Father, you're getting old, don't get too excited. Besides, this poison isn't incurable. If the general really attacks the Princess Consort of Great Chu, and you save her, she should be grateful to you and help you cure the poison."
This is the real purpose behind Masako Izumi's return to the Setsuke family home.
She knew better than anyone else how cold-blooded Izumi Nobukatsu was; he cared for nothing but himself.
It's even less likely that he would save Su Ruojin just because of her words.
But if he gets poisoned, and only Su Ruojin can cure it, then his father will have to do everything he can to protect Su Ruojin and the others.
This was the last thing she could do for Su Ruojin.
This was also a way of thanking her for saving my little chick.
She poisoned the tea she had just drunk from the beginning, and she also poisoned the hairpin in her hair.
If Izumi Nobukatsu refused to drink the tea, she would find an opportunity to stab him. The poison could seep into the body and cause poisoning if it was ingested or if the skin was broken.
She asked Su Ruojin for poison, saying it was for self-defense, and thought Su Ruojin wouldn't give it to her.
Before she could even speak, Su Ruojin gave her several poisons and antidotes, explaining how to use them. The Soul-Sealing Silk was one of them.
Yes, she has the antidote.
But before she came to find Izumi Nobukazu, she destroyed the antidote for the Soul-Binding Silk.
She wanted to ensure that in this world, Izumi Nobuyuki had no other way to survive except by protecting Su Ruojin.
Nobuyuki Izumi clutched his chest, staring intently at Masako Izumi. His eyes held no trace of a father's affection for his daughter, only a venomous malice.
If he hadn't been thinking of finding the antidote from Izumi Masako, he would have already killed this rebellious woman with a single blow.
He didn't believe that Masako Izumi didn't have the antidote.
Izumi Nobukatsu got up and opened the door to the study. "Someone come here."
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